Willem H. Buiter

Biographical Information

General

Born September 26, 1949,
in 's Gravenhage, the Netherlands, son of Harm Geert Buiter and
Hendrien Buiter van Schooten.

Nationality: USA and UK.
I lost - to my chagrin - the Dutch citizenship of my birth, because the
Dutch constitution adheres to the common but benighted school of
thought which holds that if you voluntarily take on another
nationality, you are deemed to have given up your Dutch citizenship.

Education

2014

New
York State Driving Test - docked just 5 points as a penalty for:
"Leaving Curb
- Uses Mirror Only Fails to Check Blind Spot." Examiner was not
aware of the eye in the back of my head. My greatest educational
achievement.

2013

FINRA
General Securities Representative (Series 7); FINRA Uniform Securities
Agent State Law Examination (Series 63); FINRA General Securities
Principal (Series 24). The most tedious and pointless qualifications I
ever acquired. I am a macroeconomist, for Pete's sake! Welcome to
the Home of the Compliance Box Tickers.

Joint
Director and owner with Anne C.
Sibert of TBE Consulting Limited,
a company created to support our economic, financial and monetary
advisory and consultancy activities, including frequent public speaking
engagements, often organised by Leigh
Bureau

Prizes, Awards, Honours etc.

Honorary Doctorate from the University
of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam) "For his important
contributions to macroeconomic research, monetary and macroeconomic
policy and the public debate on these issues"

Winner of the "Dr.
Hendrik Muller Prijs", a prize for the behavioral and social sciences
awarded by the "Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlands Fonds" on the
recommendation of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences

1993

Winner of the 1993
Second Annual Award of the Sanwa monograph on international financial
markets (with Giancarlo Corsetti and Paolo A. Pesenti)